[Xerte-dev] Re: Adding the html stuff to toolkits

[Pat Lockley]

you have left the actionscript dark side, join us in PHP land :)

1.9 might be a good bet though - as this sort of stuff is done for you
(relatively speaking - if you test on localhost) remember also
localhost IP addresses can be shared internally at Nottingham.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sorry! I tend to just delete emails about the other side of stuff that I don't normally have anything to do with
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 31 October 2012 12:48
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Adding the html stuff to toolkits
>
> I love this list - this only came up yesterday
>
> three steps
>
> 1) Add the urls to url_library.php and add the call to the url library function in where ever they are needed
> 2) Modify the .htaccess file on your site to add the new lines
> 3) in setup/htaccess.conf add in the new URLs so as to allow for people when they install (if this option will be installed).
>
> The reason you need two play files is modularisation :)
>
> So the root/play checks to see you can play it, and what type of thing you are trying to play - then it goes off after the module/whatever/play file so that can take over the display work, or tells you to leave/
>
> So you could, if you wanted, using 1.9 build a html player instead of mixing the two
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Probably questions for Pat...
>>
>>
>>
>> I've just added the html stuff to the Nottingham site for testing.
>>
>> It's set up so there are preview_html5.php & play_html5.php files that
>> are used instead of the normal play/preview.php.  I can view projects
>> by changing the urls to include '_html5' e.g.
>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/preview_html5.php?template_id=628
>> 0 but on the Nottingham site it generally uses the short urls e.g.
>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_6280  - how are these done?
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, why are there two play.php and preview.php files? One of each in
>> the root and one in modules/xerte.  I know you need both for it to
>> work but why aren't they combined?
>>
>>
>>
>> By the way, I pretty much copied the play/preview files and just
>> changed a couple of things for the html versions - there's possibly
>> stuff in there that's not needed but I didn't want to mess anything
>> up.  If you want to see they're in the toolkits svn.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Fay
>>
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